The Dirty Politics of Climate Change
2007 may be the year in which climate change has hit the headlines and
the environment has become the political issue, but how much do we know
really know about the backroom deals, lobbying and power players who
influence environmental policy? Why have our political leaders been so
slow to act? Which are the fossil-fuel lobby groups that still set the
policy agenda?
In this lecture Clive Hamilton, best-selling author of Scorcher, the Dirty Politics of Climate Change , reveals the real influences
7 Aquifers A layer of rock that is sufficiently porous to store water, and permeable enough to allow water to flow through it, is called an aquifer. Consolidated porous and permeable rocks, for example, sandstone and limestone, can form important and extensive aquifers (e.g. Figure 15). Unconsolidated sands and gravels may also be good
Enterprise in the sports industry
This presentation discusses Drucker's thesis that failure is a "good thing" if the opportunities that arise from such failure allow the development of personal and enterprise skills
Babbage: Trees take a bough They are the longest living organisms on earth and supply a timber industry worth $600 billion. But do we value trees enough? Also, how reforesting is one of the biggest changes to land use changes. And the growing threat to tree health. Kenneth Cukier hosts.
Exploding Maths
A series of lectures on the mathematics of growth, which everyone ought to watch!
Exploding Maths was developed by Julian Tenney
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Registrarism Ep.2 - positively accountable
You'll hear what that means in real terms and whether the lower cost equates to less regulation.
The Registrarism blog, which comments on a variety of issues in Higher Education, is available atregistrarism.wordpress.com<
In this podcast, Dr Paul Greatrix looks at the cost of positive accountability and hefce claims that the cost is being cut year on year.
Kinect to Windows Store App development Today's post goes into a little more depth on the Kinect for Windows v2 Windows Store App future Today at Microsoft BUILD 2014, Microsoft made it official: the Kinect for Windows v2 sensor and SDK are coming this summer (northern hemisphere). With it,
Windows Store app development is coming to Kinect for Windows
